Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious that such adventures must be discussed by the most suavely proficient of players in the lightest and most sophisticated of moods. Laura Hope Crews as the Duchess, Leslie Howard as the Professor, Marion Coakley as the daughter and Vincent Serrano as the butler lend just those touches that make the whole thing possible. Despite their silken methods, the purple patches of the play are as dull as they are daring, while the rest of it is light comedy in its most advanced and animated state...
...celebration shall be itself an Ecumenical Council. The Rumanian and Greek Churches have given their consent ,and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople stated that he would not object since, for obvious reasons, the Council cannot be held in his palace on the Bosphorous...
...come through by the end of the week. In one person who suffered with chronic constipation, careful sieving until all of the beads were accounted for showed that the last one came through on the 40th day. Since the beads had been mixed with the food, it is obvious that the individual's food residues also must have required this amount of time for passage...
...obvious to economists and bankers that should a commercially feasible method of manufacturing gold be worked out, it would have far-reaching results. Probably a huge period of inflation would fol- low. Bonds would on paper remain still, but actually depreciate in value measured in commodities. Stocks would soar unless their dividend rates were fixed. All commodity prices would rise. Another basis for money all over the world would have to be discovered, legislated upon, adopted. America, the richest nation in the world, would find herself loaded with tons of yellow metal useful only to fill teeth or roof houses...
...thought a wholly fitting topic for conversation, a day when athletes "trained" on beer and cigars, young Sargent dared announce that no two physiques have the same flaws, that each should be made the object of close scrutiny and the subject of carefully calculated exercises. To him it was obvious that running a mile or otherwise expending energy wholesale, would not strengthen a weak neck or flabby arms so fast as studied exertion of the neck muscles or of the biceps. He invented ingenious strength and endurance tests, opened a gymnasium in Manhattan, set out to prove his theories upon...